Today, I am just plain and simply put . . . tired.

I feel like I could just lay my head down right here on my desk and close my eyes, and it would take about three seconds before I was out cold. Three reasons . . .

1. Well, not eating right and not exercising probably are the main culprit. That’s easy enough to identify. January was full of cleansing, and eating right, and starting in February, the switch got turned back over to i don’t give a rat’s poop what i’m putting in my mouth right now. And well, obviously that has to change soon. My drooping eyelids and drooping physique tell me so.

2. Taking care of sick kids is a job in itself. One child with a double ear infection, followed by another with strep throat can make any mom exhausted. I’m just glad we weren’t dealing with throw up. The whole ear infection thing with the baby though. . . wow. . . that left me in a zombie like state for a few days. One of those nights in there, I think he woke up crying nearly fifteen times. I got more sleep with a newborn that I did that night. And trying to remember all the medication and making them comfortable drains a person pretty quickly.

3. Photo shoots. I love photo shoots, obviously . . . but without a designated home studio, it’s a lot more work than it needs to be. I had a session yesterday, so on Tuesday, I had to rearrange furniture, carry props from my various “hiding places”, bring out bins of blankets and throws, floor drops and back drops, and rearrange the dining room so that I could roll the piano out of the space where I needed to set up my backdrop in the living room. Roll up a carpet. And today, it’s not put back the way it’s supposed to be yet. I’m debating whether or not I should do it, because I have a newborn session that will be happening in the next week. So should I keep it for a week the way it is, or move everything back? Always a dilemma. Our house doesn’t have the space to make a large area for me to designate as “just for the business”. Luckily people don’t mind coming to my home and seeing that well, it’s my home, and not a studio. They have been very gracious about that. Thankfully, you’d never know from the pictures that we are shooting in my living room. . . or my family room. I long for the day when I can have everything available in one room–all the props, and the blankets, and the newborn wraps/hats/headbands. The backdrop clips, backdrop stand and all that other good stuff that I have to lug out of the garage and crawl space every time I set up for an inside session. It makes me cuckoo, and takes probably a good part of two hours to get set up the right way.

And that’s that. While I was typing out my three reasons, I thought of like ten more that I wanted to add. But I think three is a nice round (odd) number, and those are the first excuses that I thought of. All those aside though . . . perhaps I could try going to bed earlier?